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The Foo Fighters up the ante in the ice bucket challenge by posting a dramatic 3 minute video that pays homage to the scary movie “Carrie.”

In the video, Dave Grohl gets doused with icy, cold water in a scene that is reminiscent of the prom scene in the Stephen King film when the character is hit with pigs blood. Grohl challenges King, Jack Black and John Travolta before donning a prom-queen tiara during his creative spin on the ALS ice bucket challenge. The challenge program has gone viral over the last several weeks. Read More »

This episode caps a season full of twists and turns, and starts without the usual credit roll, straight to the scene where we left off last week.

Brody has Akbari’s blood on his hands, and he tries to clean up the mess by hiding the body behind the desk. He takes Akbari’s gun and exits, and just as his car is leaving the premises, guards appear to chase him down. Brody holds a gun to the driver’s head and escapes.

Carrie calls Saul to tell him Brody followed through with the mission, but Saul is suspicious. She tells him to confirm the extraction plan so she and Brody can get out alive. Read More »

“Gravity” continued to exert a dominant pull on the box office this weekend while a new movie about Wikileaks proved about as popular with the public as the organization is with the U.S. government.

With ticket sales off only 28% from the prior weekend, “Gravity” grossed an estimated $31 million on its third weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters, making it once again an easy No. 1. The 3-D science-fiction film starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney has ridden its must-see status to $171 million at the domestic box office and $114.2 million internationally so far, making it a huge hit for Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros.Read More »

This week at the multiplex, we’ve got a telekinetic teen (“Carrie,” starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore); a pair of jail-breakers (“Escape Plan,” starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger); and a document leaker (“The Fifth Estate,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Brühl). Find out what the critics have to say on Rotten Tomatoes.

“Carrie”

The original “Carrie” holds a special place in the hearts of horror buffs, so a remake is inherently fraught with peril. And critics say that while director Kimberly Peirce turns in a respectable effort, there’s little in this new “Carrie” that feels necessary. Read More »

It’s tough enough just to keep your composure after you’ve been drenched in fake pig’s blood, but Chloë Grace Moretz had to act in it. Twice.

The 16-year-old actress is the new Carrie White, the tormented teenager with telekinetic powers at the center of “Carrie,” the remake of the horror classic that opens in theaters Friday. Filming the story’s most famous scene – when pig’s blood is dumped on Carrie at the prom and she lets loose with her powers – was “very nerve-racking,” she said.

She had to endure two separate dumps of the fake pig’s-blood mixture, a combination of water, soap, coloring and thickening agents. After she was drenched with it, “I kept thinking, ‘just stay in character, stay in character,’” she told Speakeasy in a recent interview. “I was trying to be Carrie and stay in that moment as much as I can.” Read More »

This week’s “Homeland” is about captivity, with Brody and Carrie being held against their will, unsure of what, and whom, to believe as limited information reaches them.

Brody’s back – bald, and with bullets in his gut. Colombians apparently put those bullets there to collect a $10 million bounty on his head, but somehow Brody is rescued by Venezuelans and taken to Caracas. He’s treated in a high-rise construction project within view of a mosque.

The leader of the gang holding Brody appears to know Carrie Mathison, and his young, beautiful daughter is charged with caring for the wounded captive. As Brody begins to heal and walk around, he sees it’s a building inhabited by squatters, left unfinished. When blood seeps through his bullet wound, a man seemingly trained in medicine (who first removed his bullets) attends to Brody and explains that they’re in the “Tower of David,” named after an “egomaniacal banker” who died before the building was finished.

“Then why are you here?” Brody asks him.

“That’s a dangerous question. Why am I here, leads to why are you here. You see?” the “doctor” responds, before giving a cryptic answer about this place being where they all belong. Read More »

To get the word out about “Carrie,” Kimberly Peirce‘s re-interpretation of the Stephen King classic, Sony Pictures decided to freak out some patrons in a coffee shop.

“Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise,” a two-and-a-half minute video, recreates what would happen if a woman who had telekinetic powers took her frustrations out in public. Books fly off the shelves, tables move wildly, and a man finds himself thrown against a wall and then, with the help of some near invisible wires and a truss, is lifted. Filmmakers hired actors and set up the special effects in advance to fool some real-life patrons of the shop into thinking what was happening was real.

The video, created by the New York-based video content company ThinkModo, has pulled in roughly 3.7 million views since it was uploaded Monday afternoon. Read More »

A few things came to an end in this week’s episode, so let’s break it all down.

Carrie’s injured and roaming around in the dark mill in search of Abu Nazir (good thing she brought that crowbar). She hears footsteps and enters another mysterious door, but finds she’s exited to a squadron of FBI. She’s lost her target.

Quinn asks how she got away. “I escaped,” she says, not mentioning Brody and the deal he brokered with Abu Nazir. Quinn tells her about Walden’s death by heart attack.

At the apartment, Brody stares out the window. Jessica says she spoke to Mrs. Walden, who’s barely holding up. “It’s all changed, hasn’t it, now that Bill’s gone?” she says. “It’s all changed. Everything.” What happened to their marriage, their family? Read More »

As we begin, we still don’t know what, exactly, went down while Brody was back at Abu Nazir Camp. It’s also unclear whether he’s being entirely forthcoming with Carrie & Co. It appears Brody did lead the team to a bomb plot, which they managed to divert, but Abu Nazir remains at large, and in America.

Brody also remains alive, since Estes stopped Quinn in time from killing him.

Saul meets Dar Adul as he’s eating breakfast to ask about Peter Quinn. (A moment of praise for the great stage actor, F. Murray Abraham.) Dar Adul says Peter’s one of his people. Why would Estes put him in charge of the operation? “Maybe to keep his eye on you,” Dar Adul says. Maybe he doesn’t trust you, Saul. Read More »

Two weeks ago, actress and singer Patti LuPone grabbed a cell phone out of the hand of an audience member who was texting during a performance of her current play, "Shows for Days." The bold move led to an outpouring of support from fans fed up with glowing screens. Ms. LuPone gives us her five rules of theater etiquette.